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You know, the usual announcement of an announcement. However, the wait is relatively short this time.

Today Valve posted this page, complete with a countdown to Monday and the following quote:



There is an image of a controller with the cord leading into the darkness.

This just might be a Steambox announcement. Stay tuned come Monday.

I have a ton of Steam games I have bought just because they were like 75 to 90% off that I do not play. The biggest thing I find myself saying "If this was on a console id probably love it." I know I can buy a good controller for my PC but I still don't always want to sit in front of a small screen to play a game. If its under $200 I could see myself buying one for sure.

Meh still have to drag a PC into my living room set a keyboard/mouse up with it. Much easier if there was a small box that would just boot straight into my steam games. Plus Id need a wireless gamepad which I don't have. The only gamepad I have has like a 4 foot cable on it.

SteamOS. So that's a thing.

Seems to be a thing called "Linux" if I'm reading it correctly. Finally something to do with the Linux copies of all those Humble Indie Bundle games, I suppose.

Supposedly (per an article elsewhere) SteamOS will support streaming from your Win7/Win8 system through your SteamOS box. I assume it'd work sort of like Splashtop for mobile devices. Sounds like a bit of hassle to go through but then treating my PC like a game console in the family room has never been a great desire of mine. If someone else wants to do it, at least it affords some option beyond "Play Linux games".

Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 4:56pm by Jophiel

Steam Octagon. A Steamagon.

******* called it. Steambox, and closed beta.

Cuz it was such a mystery.

Can we make jokes about steamy boxes now?

Moist!

I'm not totally against the idea, but I'm not sure who the target consumer is.

If it's console-price affordable then its not going to be powerful enough to run games at 1080p 60fps with high settings.

If it's cheaper than console and depends on the streaming from your gaming rig I have to wonder just how much latency there would be (remember Onlive promised unnoticable latency...lmao). If the latency is ultra low, like <5ms round trip, then I can see this scenario having a lot of success.

If it's priced like a tower than can play all current games on max settings (~$800) then it will just be too much money for a lot of people.

It's also possible all of these will be available, but if I'm going to spend any amount of money towards a better PC gaming experience I will be putting that money into my windows OS gaming tower.

New controller, as suspected.

I think it looks awesome and I'm most excited about that.

It's staring into my soul.